For the sake of the servers, we ask that the length of the photo on the longest side be no more than 900 pixels - this can be set when uploading images to picture hosting websites.

The contest ends at 23.59 UK time on November 31st, and voting opens from then until 23.59 on December 3rd.

Only entrants may vote, and must submit their top 3 choices to me, and NOT to one of the other mods - they will not oversee the competition unless I am unavailable for any reason.

Only one photo is permitted per member, and may be changed at any point until the deadline. The photo has to have been taken by the member posting it.

Members may not vote for themselves, and since not voting gives you a higher chance of winning, it will be penalised by a deduction of three points [points are allocated as 6 for each first-placed vote, 3 for 2nd and 1 for 3rd] to redress the balance, unless for any reason the member in question is unavailable during voting, in which case alternative arrangements will be made.

I think that about covers the rules, other than to add that indecent images are subject to the same rules in this thread as the rest of the forum.

All that remains is for me to announce the title. Therefore the November 2012 Planet-F1 Forum photo competition title is:

DARKNESS

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AlienTurnedHuman wrote:

Eurytus probably thought he was God. At least until he was banned. Which means if he was God, it makes me very scared of PF1-Mod.

Yes, we have a swear filter now. No, it doesn't change coffin to 'place of rest'.

3rd should be enchantment25 with 10, but since I received no vote from him he drops 3 points, putting SDLRob 3rd with 9 except he also didn't vote. Therefore AtrumVesica takes 3rd with 8 points. Beyond that, Nakojo had 4. I think it says a lot for the standards of the competition that the fight for both the win and 3rd place was so tightly fought.

I'm also considering a change of scoring system, to perhaps rank every entrant, or maybe just the top 5 in a slightly weighted scale. Any suggestions on that would be gratefully received, as I feel we should be able to award points to the majority, at least, of entrants.

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AlienTurnedHuman wrote:

Eurytus probably thought he was God. At least until he was banned. Which means if he was God, it makes me very scared of PF1-Mod.

Yes, we have a swear filter now. No, it doesn't change coffin to 'place of rest'.

By connecting my DSLR to my telescope which tracks the night sky, I had it tracking M42 The Great Orion Nebula for this pic. You then take lots of long exposure photographs, 68 x 60 seconds in this case, and stack them all on top of one another. There is obviously quite a bit more to it than that but I won't bore you with the technicalities.

By connecting my DSLR to my telescope which tracks the night sky, I had it tracking M42 The Great Orion Nebula for this pic. You then take lots of long exposure photographs, 68 x 60 seconds in this case, and stack them all on top of one another. There is obviously quite a bit more to it than that but I won't bore you with the technicalities.

I have a sudden urge to buy a telescope! Seriously, that's an awesome photo

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Right now there are 6 entrants, and I'm experimenting with the points a little more. I'll be asking for everyone's top 5 entries, meaning at the moment everyone ranks all but their own photos when it comes to voting.

Obviously if others enter, for which there is still time, not everyone will receive points from everyone. The points will work as 10-6-4-3-2, with not voting losing a member 5 points (half a win, and also the average score of the top 5 places).

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AlienTurnedHuman wrote:

Eurytus probably thought he was God. At least until he was banned. Which means if he was God, it makes me very scared of PF1-Mod.

Yes, we have a swear filter now. No, it doesn't change coffin to 'place of rest'.

I know I'm late so I do not expect it to count, but I just want this to be seen!Took this when mountain biking to work the other day and thought the sun breaking over the horizon was really worth the early start...